School Begins (1928)
20m
Running Time
September 16, 1928Release Date
Plot.
One of a handful of currently unavailable Hal Roach/MGM “Our Gang” silent films, School Begins was a series of gags built around the unenviable ritual of returning to school during the first week of September. School begins and some gang members are forging notes from their mother wanting out. Then too-young Wheezer parades by the school with escaped circus seals following him, causing a disturbance.
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Cast & Crew.
Joe Cobb
Joe
Jean Darling
Jean
Allen 'Farina' Hoskins
Farina
Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins
Wheezer
Mary Ann Jackson
Mary Ann
Harry Spear
Harry
Jimmy Farren
Kid Sitting Behind Harry
May Wallace
Harry's mother
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Wiki.
School Begins is a 1928 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Anthony Mack. It was the 79th Our Gang short that was released and was considered to have been lost in the 1965 MGM vault fire. However, a copy is preserved in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Our Gang: The Roach/MGM silents (1927–1929).
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